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Allotment Stuff => The Basics => Topic started by: Karen Atkinson on June 28, 2010, 21:32:31
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...how do you get your hands and nails clean after being on the allotment??
I find it hard to wear gloves and plant properly...there's something about eath and hands which I like, but my nails and skin are atrocious! I've tried the obvious...nailbrush, soap, that stuff you get paint off your skin with name escapes me - not meths!), toothpaste to clean nails. Please help!
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Olive oil helps if the dirt is really ground in.
As for nails I always have to spend ages cleaning mine
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one does use thin latex gloves when gardening...and one takes them off when sowing seeds... ;)...but looking at my hands..well one does have grubby bits... ::)
I don't think there is really a cure for the "working girl's" hands... :-X
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My mum's hands and nails were always dirtier than my dad's! She was a lifelong gardener who never wore gloves and he was a builder/decorator who did sometimes! :)
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I only use gloves for thorny stingy stuff.Can't work properly with them on.
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Make some bread. My hands are perfect after a kneading session......
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You need the stuff engineers and mechanics used to use to stop there hands being permanently oily and grimy, it goes by the generic name of Barrier Cream.
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Olive oil and sugar/salt rub it in rub around your nails works a treat.
I do wear latex gloves but in this heat Yuk :(
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Before you go out, scrape your nails down a bar of soap. The soap under your nails should keep out quite a bit of muck and grime.
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Do try and wear gloves. I can talk. I take them over, then have them on for a while, pull them off to do something intricate then before know where I am my hands are bad again. Hand cream before working helps, a beeswax based handcream does form a sort of barrier. I've found that after scrubbing the dirt off, lemon juice is the only reliable thing that whitens the horrible rough stained bits I get on thumbs and forefingers. If you sort of scratch at half a lemon, it helps with under your nails too. Once clean, the skin is rough and catches on fabrics, Ive found that Avon do a glycerine hand cream that soothes rough skin, although it's not any good as a barrier.
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Before you go out, scrape your nails down a bar of soap. The soap under your nails should keep out quite a bit of muck and grime.
thats a great idea,thanks!
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I have the same trouble. I went in to work at the weekend and was told my hands were dirty even though i had been washing and scrubbing before work. At least it shows we"re not afraid of a bit of dirt!!! Unlike my 18 year old daughter lol!
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I've tried the soap in nails before starting but hasn't seem to worked. Also, I tend to moisturise my hands before I start but perhaps I need a thicker barrier cream. will try olive oil
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I usually find that washing my hair also seems to clean my hands or washing a pair of socks by hand.
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The brier gloves at wikinsions are ok they are the nylon ones that look as if they have had the palms and the tips of the fingers dipped in rubber.They don't sweat your hands as much as latex and they wash lovely as well. All this for £1-49 a pair. The wilkinsons own make are more expensive but not as good. They are tight enough to weed and transpalnt in.
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I always have a nice long soak in the bath, works wonders. :D
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I'm very aware of the state of my hands and particularly nails, as a midwife I'm also constantly handwashing/gelling them at work so they get a lot of abuse! I'm also not good at wearing gloves generally at the lottie, ( I end up with brown arms and white hands in the summer!!) but find that using a pumice stone on the really grubby ingrained bits of my fingers works, followed by a good handcream like the hemp type ones from the BodyShop, or my latest favourite is Norwegian Hand Repair that also seems to act as a bit of a barrier cream so they don't get so bad in the first place!
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Make some bread. My hands are perfect after a kneading session......
that's what I was going to say! Tell the family it's "wholemeal" ;D
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Aw yuk! ;D ;D ;D
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I find even when I wear gloves, my nails still get mucky!
I use my 3-y-o son's old toothbrushes. I scrub it on the soap or squirt on a bit of liquid soap and then scrub away! They are much softer than adult ones and I find they work so much better than proper nail brushes. Recycling too!
And I find the only way to get dirt from the cracks on my hands is to wash my hair! Or keep my hands well moisturised with olive oil so they don't crack in the first place!
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tried dipping each nail in a cup of lemon juice this am..they look marginally better..yes, actually, they do look cleaner though it may well have just bleached the dirt!
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Make some bread. My hands are perfect after a kneading session......
that's what I was going to say! Tell the family it's "wholemeal" ;D
Me too - it never fails!
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Use barrier cream and you will find it all washes off.
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I use Swarfega, available from B&Q, Homebase, builders merchants etc, not sure about Wilkos.
Cleans out the ingrained dirt, it does help on nails, but not perfect.
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I usually find that washing my hair also seems to clean my hands or washing a pair of socks by hand.
Yep- or washing up.
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I use my 3-y-o son's old toothbrushes. I scrub it on the soap or squirt on a bit of liquid soap and then scrub away! They are much softer than adult ones and I find they work so much better than proper nail brushes. Recycling too!
I hope you mean old toothbrushes ;D
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Have a manicure. Not only does it get rid of the cr*p but it's very relaxing and if you've spent the day on the lottie/in the garden then you deserve a bit of pampering.
I go to my local college where they have a beauty department and it costs a fiver for a really nice manicure.
CC
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I washed something by hand with a stain on it using Arial Biological and my hands came up really amazingly bright. Left them a bit dry but soon sorted that out with a bit of hand cream.
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Think we must have extra tenacious dirt round here. Barrier cream makes no difference. And it survives hair washing easily.
Soaking in a solution of soda crystals works, but that's rather drastic. Only time my hands look clean all summer is bathroom cleaning day.
Sally
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thought about a manicure but felt too deeply ashamed of how nails looked!! (..I know, I know..it's the equivalent of tidying up before the cleaner comes!. Wouldn't mind a cleaner come to think of it - house been sadly neglected since got the lottie!)
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I don't even think about it. What's a bit of good clean dirt?
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I would also like to go to have my nails manic cured if I had any and if I had then Wigan is much too far to travel ;D
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thought about a manicure but felt too deeply ashamed of how nails looked!! (..I know, I know..it's the equivalent of tidying up before the cleaner comes!. Wouldn't mind a cleaner come to think of it - house been sadly neglected since got the lottie!)
;D ;D ;D...you are not alone...rainy day is my housework day...but in this weather ::)....I'm shoveling it back to lottie soon ::)
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I find even when I wear gloves, my nails still get mucky!
I use my 3-y-o son's toothbrushes. I scrub it on the soap or squirt on a bit of liquid soap and then scrub away! They are much softer than adult ones and I find they work so much better than proper nail brushes. Recycling too!
lol....
All I can say is I hope you rinse it off before you let him brush his teeth with it again...pmsl
wraith
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Have a manicure. Not only does it get rid of the cr*p but it's very relaxing and if you've spent the day on the lottie/in the garden then you deserve a bit of pampering.
I go to my local college where they have a beauty department and it costs a fiver for a really nice manicure.
last manicure i had (25 quid) she deliberately DIDNT clean under my nails,as apparently they *dont do that anymore* for health and safety reasons,they could damage the nail bed...i have never been so embarassed! I havnt found my hands too bad so far this year,the soil has been so very dry it hasnt clung to my skin as normal!
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:) wash your hair and then put nail polish on to hide the rest of the dirt....it works for me ;D / shades x